Peter Sherwood

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Peter Sherwood taught at universities in the UK and US for more than forty years, retiring as distinguished professor of Hungarian language and culture from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2014. His translations from Hungarian have been appearing since the late 1960s. With his wife, Julia Sherwood, he also translates from Slovak and Czech.

(books read when drunk)
By Edina Szvoren
January 2025
Edina Szvoren
Photo by Rey Seven / Unsplash.comAvid reader Andor Femin and the narrator of this flash fiction don’t always see eye to eye, but their observations about reading are always amusing. Andor Femin is an…
My Seven Lives: Jana Juráňová in Conversation with Agneša Kalinová by Jana Juráňová & Agneša Kalinová
By Jana Juráňová , By Agneša Kalinová

Jana Juráňová, Agneša Kalinová
West Lafayette, Indiana. Purdue University Press. 2021. 456 pages. SOME LIVES ARE iconic; such is the case with Czechoslovakian intellect Agneša Kalinová (1924–2014), whose personal n…
It’s Raining in Moscow by Zsuzsa Selyem
By Zsuzsa Selyem

Zsuzsa Selyem
New York. Contra Mundum Press. 2020. 147 pages. IT’S RAINING IN MOSCOW is the first collection of stories in English by Zsuzsa Selyem, a well-known Transylvanian Hungarian au…
Bellevue by Ivana Dobrakovová
By Ivana Dobrakovová

Ivana Dobrakovová
London. Jantar. 2019. 219 pages. IN BELLEVUE, Ivana Dobrakovová, winner of the European Prize for Literature, pulls no punches for her readers or her protagonist, nineteen-ye…
In the Name of the Father and Other Stories by Balla
By Balla

Balla
London. Jantar. 2017. 129 pages. I wanted to like Balla’s In the Name of the Father, I really did. I was intrigued by the promise of a Slovak Kafka; I wanted to experience the Eastern Europea…
Into the Spotlight: New Writing from Slovakia

Bloomington, Indiana. Slavica / Three String Books. 2017. 185 pages. The translators of Into the Spotlight have set out to expand the body of contemporary Slovak fiction available in English,…
The Finno-Ugrian Vampire by Noémi Szécsi
By Noémi Szécsi

Noémi Szécsi
Peter Sherwood, tr. London. Stork Press. 2012. ISBN 9780957132665 In the first paragraph of this “were-tale for six actors, five voices, two players,” narrator Jerne Voltampere proffers fair warning:…